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The library weblog dedicated to resources for keeping current and professional developmentTue, 31 Mar 2015 14:05:07 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1Elsevier Now Adding eBooks to CLOCKSS Archivinghttp://www.librarystuff.net/2015/02/05/elsevier-now-adding-ebooks-to-clockss-archiving/
http://www.librarystuff.net/2015/02/05/elsevier-now-adding-ebooks-to-clockss-archiving/#commentsThu, 05 Feb 2015 19:36:24 +0000http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=16210“Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced its agreement to participate in CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) archiving of ebooks. CLOCKSS is a community-governed archive committed to open access. As a not-for-profit venture between academic publishers and research libraries, CLOCKSS is building a sustainable, geographically distributed archive. This ensures the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications, such as Elsevier science and technology ebooks, for the benefit of the greater global research community.” (via Elsevier)
]]>http://www.librarystuff.net/2015/02/05/elsevier-now-adding-ebooks-to-clockss-archiving/feed/0Elsevier Foundation Announces its 2015 Grant Recipientshttp://www.librarystuff.net/2014/12/04/elsevier-foundation-announces-its-2015-grant-recipients/
http://www.librarystuff.net/2014/12/04/elsevier-foundation-announces-its-2015-grant-recipients/#commentsThu, 04 Dec 2014 13:28:01 +0000http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=16005“The Elsevier Foundation today announced its 2015 grant recipients for the Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries and New Scholars Programs. In total $600.000 has been committed for 2015 that will support various multiyear projects in over 20 countries in the developing world. The Elsevier Foundation is funded by Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services.” (via PRNewswire

]]>http://www.librarystuff.net/2014/12/04/elsevier-foundation-announces-its-2015-grant-recipients/feed/0OCLC and Elsevier to offer automated seamless access to subscribed e-contenthttp://www.librarystuff.net/2014/06/27/oclc-and-elsevier-to-offer-automated-seamless-access-to-subscribed-e-content/
http://www.librarystuff.net/2014/06/27/oclc-and-elsevier-to-offer-automated-seamless-access-to-subscribed-e-content/#commentsFri, 27 Jun 2014 18:58:09 +0000http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=15351“OCLC and Elsevier, a leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, are working together to automate the process to keep e-book and e-journal holdings from ScienceDirect, Elsevier’s full-text platform for research literature, up-to-date in WorldCat and library catalogs. The automated process ensures seamless access to subscribed content without intervention from library staff.” (via OCLC)
]]>http://www.librarystuff.net/2014/06/27/oclc-and-elsevier-to-offer-automated-seamless-access-to-subscribed-e-content/feed/0Elsevier Takedown Notices: A Q&A with Peter Suberhttp://www.librarystuff.net/2014/04/17/elsevier-takedown-notices-a-qa-with-peter-suber/
http://www.librarystuff.net/2014/04/17/elsevier-takedown-notices-a-qa-with-peter-suber/#commentsThu, 17 Apr 2014 16:30:29 +0000http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=14949“In November 2013, Harvard received 23 takedown notices from Elsevier, a publisher of academic journals. A takedown notice is a request from a copyright holder to remove a work from the internet because of alleged copyright infringement. To comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), internet hosts like Harvard must comply with takedown notices even if the recipient may choose to put the work back up again. All 23 of the takedown notices targeted published editions of articles from Elsevier journals posted to websites on the Harvard.edu domain, including for example lab sites, faculty sites, and course websites hosted on iSites. All 23 articles were promptly taken down. None of the takedowns targeted articles in DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard), the open-access repository maintained by Harvard’s Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC). As Sarah Thomas, vice president for the Harvard Library, put it, “The OSC is part of the solution, not part of the problem.” (via Harvard Library Portal)
]]>http://www.librarystuff.net/2014/04/17/elsevier-takedown-notices-a-qa-with-peter-suber/feed/0ScienceDirect Content Now Available to MyScienceWork Usershttp://www.librarystuff.net/2014/04/03/sciencedirect-content-now-available-to-mysciencework-users/
http://www.librarystuff.net/2014/04/03/sciencedirect-content-now-available-to-mysciencework-users/#commentsThu, 03 Apr 2014 15:10:09 +0000http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=14891“Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has announced its collaboration with scientific social network MyScienceWork on a pilot initiative to enable researchers to easily share and discover over 11 million articles through MyScienceWork. The pilot will allow MyScienceWork users to read, annotate and share articles from ScienceDirect within the MyScienceWork interface among each other. The articles on MyScienceWork will be presented the same way as users find them on ScienceDirect: full text published articles will be available to those affiliated with ScienceDirect subscribers and Open Access articles will be available to all.” (via Elsevier)
]]>http://www.librarystuff.net/2014/04/03/sciencedirect-content-now-available-to-mysciencework-users/feed/0Text-mining contract signed by Libraries offers computational access to Elsevier articleshttp://www.librarystuff.net/2014/03/26/text-mining-contract-signed-by-libraries-offers-computational-access-to-elsevier-articles/
http://www.librarystuff.net/2014/03/26/text-mining-contract-signed-by-libraries-offers-computational-access-to-elsevier-articles/#commentsWed, 26 Mar 2014 19:40:10 +0000http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=14866“The MIT Libraries have signed an agreement with Elsevier, the largest publisher of journal articles in the world, to allow members of the MIT community to text-mine scholarly articles subscribed to through Elsevier’s ScienceDirect service. Typically, licensed access to journals like Elsevier’s does not permit systematic searching or downloading, and excludes the use of software agents, robots, or scripts. This has been a disappointment to many researchers, who wish to take advantage of automated tools to carry out new forms of research, speed up the research process, and enhance discovery and innovation.” (via MIT Libraries)
]]>http://www.librarystuff.net/2014/03/26/text-mining-contract-signed-by-libraries-offers-computational-access-to-elsevier-articles/feed/0Publisher cracks down on authors of academic articleshttp://www.librarystuff.net/2014/01/10/publisher-cracks-down-on-authors-of-academic-articles/
http://www.librarystuff.net/2014/01/10/publisher-cracks-down-on-authors-of-academic-articles/#commentsFri, 10 Jan 2014 14:52:16 +0000http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=14438“It seems to be common sense that the author of a journalistic paper or academic article should have the rights to host the material on his or her website, but that is precisely the argument at the core of recent legal squabbles between Elsevier — a publisher of scientific and medical literature based in Amsterdam — and the authors of Elsevier’s content. In early December 2013, Elsevier began issuing massive numbers of takedown requests to Academia.edu — a social networking website for academics — as well as Harvard University, the University of Calgary, and the University of California-Irvine. Elsevier is using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to claim that the academics who authored the articles in its journals do not have the right to repurpose the articles on their personal websites — a practice that is not necessarily legal, but long gone unpursued by publishers. Until now.” (via Inside Counsel)
]]>http://www.librarystuff.net/2014/01/10/publisher-cracks-down-on-authors-of-academic-articles/feed/0Elsevier Foundation Awards 2013 Grants to Champion Libraries in Developing Countries and Women in Sciencehttp://www.librarystuff.net/2013/12/09/elsevier-foundation-awards-2013-grants-to-champion-libraries-in-developing-countries-and-women-in-science/
http://www.librarystuff.net/2013/12/09/elsevier-foundation-awards-2013-grants-to-champion-libraries-in-developing-countries-and-women-in-science/#commentsMon, 09 Dec 2013 13:08:31 +0000http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=14303“The Elsevier Foundation announced today the 2013 grant recipients for the Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries and New Scholars award programs. In total, $700,000 has been committed to ten institutions around the world in addition to five ongoing multiyear grants and the Nurse Faculty program. The Elsevier Foundation is funded by Elsevier, a global provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services.” (via PRNewswire)
]]>http://www.librarystuff.net/2013/12/09/elsevier-foundation-awards-2013-grants-to-champion-libraries-in-developing-countries-and-women-in-science/feed/0Elsevier to Provide Textbooks for Five New edX MOOCshttp://www.librarystuff.net/2013/10/23/elsevier-to-provide-textbooks-for-five-new-edx-moocs/
http://www.librarystuff.net/2013/10/23/elsevier-to-provide-textbooks-for-five-new-edx-moocs/#commentsWed, 23 Oct 2013 12:54:54 +0000http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=13993“Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced that it has agreed to provide edX with Elsevier science and technology book content for up to five massive open online courses (MOOC). EdX offers online learning to students on campus and millions of people around the world with its open-source platform. Elsevier will provide textbook content for free online as part of the course materials and will offer a discount to purchase the print or electronic version of the text to those enrolled in the MOOC.” (via Elsevier)
]]>http://www.librarystuff.net/2013/10/23/elsevier-to-provide-textbooks-for-five-new-edx-moocs/feed/0Elsevier Expands its Legacy Collection to More Than 9500 Bookshttp://www.librarystuff.net/2013/10/16/elsevier-expands-its-legacy-collection-to-more-than-9500-books/
http://www.librarystuff.net/2013/10/16/elsevier-expands-its-legacy-collection-to-more-than-9500-books/#commentsWed, 16 Oct 2013 15:01:41 +0000http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=13938“Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the expansion of its Legacy Collection on ScienceDirect. Elsevier’s Legacy Collection now includes more than 9500 books with contributions from more than 100 Nobel Laureates.The Legacy Collection digitizes classic historical scholarly book content. Many of these newly digitized foundational books were difficult to find in print or out-of-print altogether. Having this content secured and fully integrated on ScienceDirect enables digital searching and deep reference linking on this historical reference material, completing library collections and expanding holdings without the burden of locating or borrowing.” (via Elsevier)
]]>http://www.librarystuff.net/2013/10/16/elsevier-expands-its-legacy-collection-to-more-than-9500-books/feed/0Elsevier Announces its Scopus Book Titles Expansion Programhttp://www.librarystuff.net/2013/10/08/elsevier-announces-its-scopus-book-titles-expansion-program/
http://www.librarystuff.net/2013/10/08/elsevier-announces-its-scopus-book-titles-expansion-program/#commentsTue, 08 Oct 2013 18:45:51 +0000http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=13876“Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced that Scopus has indexed the first 7,500 book titles as part of its Book Titles Expansion program. By 2015, an estimated 75,000 book titles will be indexed.The inclusion of book titles adds to the more than 50 million records indexed by Scopus which are derived from 20,000 journals, 5.5 million conference proceedings and 390 trade publications.” (via Elsevier)
]]>http://www.librarystuff.net/2013/10/08/elsevier-announces-its-scopus-book-titles-expansion-program/feed/0Woodhead Publishing Acquired by Elsevierhttp://www.librarystuff.net/2013/08/13/woodhead-publishing-acquired-by-elsevier/
http://www.librarystuff.net/2013/08/13/woodhead-publishing-acquired-by-elsevier/#commentsTue, 13 Aug 2013 19:53:47 +0000http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=13405“Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced it has acquired Woodhead Publishing Limited, an award-winning, UK-based publisher known for its high-quality content in the fields of materials science, food science, engineering, energy & environmental technology, textile technology and biomedicine. The acquisition of Woodhead Publishing also includes Chandos Publishing, which is known for its strong publishing program in library information science and Asian studies.” (via Digital Book World)
]]>http://www.librarystuff.net/2013/08/13/woodhead-publishing-acquired-by-elsevier/feed/0Elsevier’s Digital Services Upgraded to Provide Enhanced Searching and Mobile Capabilitieshttp://www.librarystuff.net/2013/06/04/elseviers-digital-services-upgraded-to-provide-enhanced-searching-and-mobile-capabilities/
http://www.librarystuff.net/2013/06/04/elseviers-digital-services-upgraded-to-provide-enhanced-searching-and-mobile-capabilities/#commentsTue, 04 Jun 2013 14:26:57 +0000http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=13167“Elsevier, a word-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced a major investment in services provided to its society partners and individual readers: a new online platform and management system for its 500+ health, medical, and life science journal-branded websites. The new online platform will provide these journal-branded websites improved search results accuracy, a more robust editorial tool to create topical article collections, and a high quality reading experience for visitors using mobile devices. The upgrades will begin this Fall.” (via Elsevier)
]]>http://www.librarystuff.net/2013/06/04/elseviers-digital-services-upgraded-to-provide-enhanced-searching-and-mobile-capabilities/feed/0Elsevier Repeats Offer for Free Access to ScienceDirect for Early Career Researchers Impacted by an Uncertain Job Markethttp://www.librarystuff.net/2013/06/03/elsevier-repeats-offer-for-free-access-to-sciencedirect-for-early-career-researchers-impacted-by-an-uncertain-job-market/
http://www.librarystuff.net/2013/06/03/elsevier-repeats-offer-for-free-access-to-sciencedirect-for-early-career-researchers-impacted-by-an-uncertain-job-market/#commentsMon, 03 Jun 2013 15:36:54 +0000http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=13162“Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced that its Postdoc Free Access Program will be repeated, an initiative designed to help early career researchers who are in between research positions stay up-to-date in their field. The global economic climate for science funding is creating challenges for postdoctoral students, especially for those looking for employment. In response to this growing trend, the program was conceived by editors and publishers at Elsevier who began to hear from postdocs in countries where funding has been hit hardest. Many emphasized the mounting pressure to stay competitive and publish, in many cases without the resources to do so.” (via Elsevier)
]]>http://www.librarystuff.net/2013/06/03/elsevier-repeats-offer-for-free-access-to-sciencedirect-for-early-career-researchers-impacted-by-an-uncertain-job-market/feed/0Elsevier and O’Reilly Media Sign New Ebook Distribution Dealhttp://www.librarystuff.net/2013/04/16/elsevier-and-oreilly-media-sign-new-ebook-distribution-deal/
http://www.librarystuff.net/2013/04/16/elsevier-and-oreilly-media-sign-new-ebook-distribution-deal/#commentsTue, 16 Apr 2013 13:31:29 +0000http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=13029“Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and technology publisher O’Reilly Media today announced that O’Reilly will distribute many of Elsevier’s academic, research-focused ebooks. This expands the depth of ebooks available from O’Reilly in areas such as computer security and networking, and includes leading imprints such as Morgan Kaufmann, Syngress, Academic Press, Butterworth-Heinemann, Newnes and Elsevier with more than 1,200 individual titles.” (via Elsevier)
]]>http://www.librarystuff.net/2013/04/16/elsevier-and-oreilly-media-sign-new-ebook-distribution-deal/feed/0Elsevier Acquires Knovel, Provider of Web-based Productivity Application for the Engineering Communityhttp://www.librarystuff.net/2013/01/07/elsevier-acquires-knovel-provider-of-web-based-productivity-application-for-the-engineering-community/
http://www.librarystuff.net/2013/01/07/elsevier-acquires-knovel-provider-of-web-based-productivity-application-for-the-engineering-community/#commentsMon, 07 Jan 2013 18:40:40 +0000http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=12676“Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today the acquisition of Knovel Corp. New York City-based Knovel provides a web-based application that integrates technical information with analytical and search tools to drive innovation and deliver answers engineers can trust.

Founded in 2001, Knovel has developed a deep knowledge of the engineering community and is a valuable tool for thousands of engineers and students in more than 700 corporations and engineering schools worldwide. Knovel integrates information and data from more than 100 engineering societies and publishers and makes it highly searchable and interactive so that engineers can easily manipulate the data they find and use it in other engineering applications.”

]]>http://www.librarystuff.net/2013/01/07/elsevier-acquires-knovel-provider-of-web-based-productivity-application-for-the-engineering-community/feed/0Fake Elsevier’s complaints about academic publishing leads to fake takedown noticehttp://www.librarystuff.net/2012/03/27/fake-elseviers-complaints-about-academic-publishing-leads-to-fake-takedown-notice/
http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/03/27/fake-elseviers-complaints-about-academic-publishing-leads-to-fake-takedown-notice/#commentsTue, 27 Mar 2012 18:35:31 +0000http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=11439Ars Technica – “Currently, any research funded by the NIH is made open access within a year of its publication. Many academic publishers have been pushing to have the policy reversed, and a bill introduced earlier this year would have done exactly that. This triggered a public backlash, including a boycott of medical and scientific publisher Elsevier. The publishers have since backed off, and the bill was withdrawn. That hasn’t, however, stopped the boycott—its support of the bill was just one of a long list of issues academics have with Elsevier. And, in the intervening months, one researcher has turned to a bit of guerilla public relations, starting a Fake Elsevier blog and Twitter account.”
]]>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/03/27/fake-elseviers-complaints-about-academic-publishing-leads-to-fake-takedown-notice/feed/0Elsevier Journal Scandal Provokes Significant Librarian Responsehttp://www.librarystuff.net/2009/05/14/elsevier-journal-scandal-provokes-significant-librarian-response/
http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/05/14/elsevier-journal-scandal-provokes-significant-librarian-response/#commentsFri, 15 May 2009 00:38:27 +0000http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=7076 Library Journal – “Since word of Elsevier's publication of a “fake” journal sponsored by pharmaceutical company Merck spread last week, the company acknowledged the publication of five more journals with similar undisclosed sponsorship between 2000 and 2005. (This publication and Elsevier have the same parent company, Reed Elsevier.)”
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